Nubo

Want to eat healthy food that doesn't feel like it's shoving clean ingredients down your throat with a smirk? Nubo's your best bet. The bright, pastel-hued café – Instagrammable as hell – serves great food that HAPPENS to be good for you, instead of harping on about clean eating that's ultimately tasteless.

The menu's massively customisable – it lets you pick your base, protein and sauces, which means you can be as virtuous or chaotic as you want. One of the better bowls is the Asian Grain variant (I customised mine with millet noodles, spicy chicken, baby spinach, peanut sauce, kimchi, and cucumber). The flavours work well – bold, nutty, slightly spicy, with enough depth to feel like a real meal. 

The Harissa Wrap follows a similar formula: baby spinach, garlic toum, spicy broccoli, jalapeño feta and your choice of protein. The chicken is nicely done and the sauces bring some much-needed character, but the wrap doesn’t quite land the same punch as the bowl. It’s good, just not the kind of good that'll make you order it again.

The drinks are decent. The Nubo Special Shaken Cold Coffee is their signature creation, shaken until frothy perfection, and they pull off fresh strawberry-coffee combination pretty well. Another standout is the Tropical Sunset: a mix of mango, pineapple, ginger, mint, beetroot powder and mulethi. It’s bright, refreshing and packed with flavour.

Nubo's ultimately quite affordable, casual and approachable, somewhere you can grab a quick meal without worrying too much about money or calories. The price point definitely makes it easier to come back to.